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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for i...  
Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to ma...  
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.  
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they...  
In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities c...  
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It ...  
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and ...  
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. ...  
The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obl...  
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has com...  
We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that g...